Simmons said in a statement that the allegations in the suit are “absolutely untrue.”

In a statement read to CBS News over the phone, Jarosik’s lawyer Perry Wander said the music industry should “face the music.”

“It’s time that the hip hop industry face the music and recognize that the deep-rooted history of misogyny and discrimination and exploitation of women in the music industry has to come to an end. #TimesUP,” he said. “Mr. Simmons is a longtime vegan, practicing nonviolence against animals. So basically he treats animals better than women. The hypocrisy has to stop now.”